Authorities claim Libre by Nexus exploited immigrants seeking release from detention centers.
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Law could help undocumented domestic violence victims
The state’s new Green Light law restores undocumented immigrants’ ability to get driver’s licenses.
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Vigil to be held Tuesday for farm worker facing deportation
[ UPDATED] The court date for Dolores Bustamante, an undocumented worker facing deportation, has been postponed to May 8. Advocates had originally planned for a day-long vigil for Tuesday, December 19, at the Buffalo Federal Detention Center in Batavia, during her immigration trial. Bustamante and her then-3-year-old daughter fled Mexico in 2004, and she ultimately settled […]
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[Updated] Rally held for recently detained immigrants
Protestors filled the steps and sidewalk in front of downtown Rochester’s Federal Building on Friday for a rally against recent deportation actions taken in the area. A string of speakers and immigrant rights activists from Metro Justice, Worker Justice Center of New York, and other organizations spoke on the importance of farm workers in the […]
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For undocumented workers, a rock and a hard place
Many undocumented farm laborers are in the country looking for real, hard work — and our agricultural system has come to crucially depend on them. Others, like Dolores Bustamante, have fled a dangerous situation. But undocumented immigrants face a lot of barriers, and it’s creating a situation of isolation
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This Christian nation: the immigrant children
Maybe I’m naive, but I was shocked last month by the reaction to news that Monroe County might get a shelter for immigrant children. In late June, when the media reported that the federal government was looking at locations in the Rochester and Buffalo areas, Congressman Chris Collins lashed out. It’s “unacceptable,” he said, that […]
